Sentence examples for commencement from high-quality English sources.

• No one’s ever had a commencement ceremony like this.

• The last class to miss a commencement because of war.

• He hopes to help them commemorate their high school experience, even though coronavirus disrupted their commencement.

• Billy Joel has played Madison Square Garden a hundred and six times and delivered eight commencement speeches, but he’s never given a commencement speech at the Garden.

• The last class to miss a commencement because of war.

• William McRaven during commencement speeches at graduation ceremonies last week.

• "When President Knapp asked me to speak at your commencement, I thought, 'why a chef?'

• The president traditionally delivers a commencement address every year to one of the military service academies.

Use commencement in a sentence.

• Some are exploring “virtual"alternatives, while others are considering inviting seniors back for commencement at a later date or just mailing out diplomas.

• University response: Leo Rafael Reif, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), addressed the community on May 29, which also happened to be the school commencement day.

• rang out after a couple of minutes, as Senator Elizabeth Warren, speaking to an almost all-black audience at Morgan State University’s winter commencement, described how America has “systematically discriminated against black people.”

• Mr Justice McAlinden ruled the Executive Office was deliberately stymieing the commencement of payouts in order to pressurise the government into funding it and, in Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill's case, getting the eligibility criteria changed.

• During the Facebook COO's deeply personal commencement speech about resilience at UC Berkeley, she spoke on how understanding the three Ps that largely determine our ability to deal with setbacks helped her cope with the loss of her husband, Dave Goldberg.

• It can be easy to feel resentful and trudge through the work until dues are paid, but this can also be a time to excel, explained Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman in her commencement address Friday at her alma mater, the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management.

• Renewable energy surged to make up nearly 5% of non-mining business investment across Australia in 2018, according to the research note by RBA economists, but the number of large-scale clean projects reaching the point of commencement slumped about 50% last year.

• Ivanka Trump has hit out at “cancel culture and viewpoint discrimination” after plans for her to give a virtual commencement speech to students in Kansas were canceled amid criticism of Donald Trump’s response to anti-police brutality protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.

commencement sentence examples

• Next month, she will speak at the LGBT Community Center in New York; in May she will deliver the commencement speech at her alma mater, Wellesley College, where nearly 50 years ago she launched her political career when she delivered its first student commencement address.

• Lim said the company also produced ads that directly spoke to the coronavirus crisis, like one featuring wealth management advisors working from home and another called "Show Me Your Walk," a virtual commencement celebration for college students featuring Kevin Hart, Serena Williams and Stephen Curry.

• In the joint statement, the unions said representatives had been left "deeply disappointed" by the meeting earlier in which they said the DESC had "cited clear instructions from the treasury, allegedly received 15 minutes prior to the commencement of the meeting, that no additional funds were available".

• This is because that amendment deals with the commencement of the power to override the Northern Ireland Protocol, so, while it will be debated, it does not get voted on until Tuesday, when MPs consider the final clause, the commencement clause, which says when the new law comes into effect.